When comparing Sensoria Fitness Socks vs Jawbone UP3, the Slant community recommends Sensoria Fitness Socks for most people. In the question“What are the best fitness trackers?”Sensoria Fitness Socks is ranked 13th while Jawbone UP3 is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Sensoria Fitness Socks is:

Sensoria fitness tracker gathers information on how a runner puts pressure on their foot and analyzes it in real-time. If the sock notices something that could potentially cause injuries, it warns the runner with a voice message and suggests a way to improve his technique.

Pros

Pro

Provides feedback on running technique through voice messages

Sensoria fitness tracker gathers information on how a runner puts pressure on their foot and analyzes it in real-time. If the sock notices something that could potentially cause injuries, it warns the runner with a voice message and suggests a way to improve his technique.

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Motivational audio cues

A virtual coach can be set up to congratulate when personal records get beaten, cheer when doing well, and warn when not doing as well as hoped. The frequency of audio cues can be adjusted.

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Allows adjusting settings to preferred running style

There are multiple valid ways of running. To accommodate runners of different styles, Sensoria fitness tracker allows setting up desired landing positions and cadence as well as turn on a metronome to help out with execution.

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Easy access to data

Sensoria provides companion apps for iOS, Android and Windows phones, as well as a web dashboard.

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Socks can be washed

Though the fitness tracker is not fully waterproof, the pressure sensitive electronic textile used in the socks can safely be washed and machine dried.

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Integrates with Jawbone's free app for logging food & drink

Foods eaten can be added manually from a comprehensive list and detailed statistics about them can be seen. Foods can also be added by pointing smartphone's camera to a bar-code.

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Suggests personalized goals to help keep you motivated

A feature called "Today I Will" suggests personalized goals throughout the day.

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Highly accurate heart-rate monitor

UP3 fitness tracker uses micro-currents to sense the user's heart rate with extreme accuracy. Currently, heart-rate is only tracked twice a day, but it will be tracked continuously after UP3 has a firmware update.

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Advanced sleep tracking

UP3 is capable of detecting light, deep & REM sleep. Correlation between activity and sleep are also recorded so Smart Coach can make personalized sleep recommendations in the future.

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App helps you keep track of your goals and progress

The fitness tracker's app is beautiful and intuitive. It allows accessing personal profile, goals, lifeline, trends, team members, app support, inbox and settings. Additionally, status of Sleep Mode can be changed, stopwatch can be started/stopped and power naps, alarms, and alerts can be set up.

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Accurate step counter gives you reliable data

UP3 has a very low margin of error when counting steps. For example, it won't count arm movements towards total step count as many other fitness trackers tend to do. As such it will be able to provide more accurate data on calories burned, time active and distance traveled.

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7-day battery life

Running 24 hours a day, UP3 will last a week off of one charge.

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Smart alarm helps you wake feeling rested

The UP3 tracks sleep cycles, and its alarm can be configured to take this into account, attempting to select an optimal wake time.

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Can be set up to e-mail a weekly summary

Jawbone allows for users to set up a weekly email that will send a summary of their activities making fro an easy way to see what one has done in the last week.

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Share with and keep track of friends

You can add friends or just random people and see their activity in your app's activity feed. You can also cheer them on and comment on progress.

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Has OLED indicators for notifications & status

Blue light indicates sleep mode, the orange light indicates activity, and white indicates that there is a notification.

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One size fits all

UP3 comes with an adjustable strap so everyone can wear the same bracelet.

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Logs workout

To automatically track a timed activity, you can set the wristband in Stopwatch mode by pressing + long-pressing the button. You can also enter the activity manually from the app by supplying information on the activity type, effort level, start time and duration.

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Allows setting goals, alerts and reminders in order to motivate

There are multiple ways the app tries to motivate. First it asks to set goals and if you are struggling in achieving them, you can set the tracker to remind or alert you via notifications of your connected device or vibrating the wristband itself.

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Power nap mode

2 presses + long-press on the wristband will enter power nap mode. Power nap setting, such as how long should you be asleep and your maximum time spent sleeping and awake, can be adjusted from within the application.

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Integrates with an impressive list of apps

Jawbone app allows data from third-party apps to be imported as well as Jawbone's data to be used to supplement other apps. When activity is logged in a third-party app it will show up in Jawbone app's feed to give a complete overview of fitness and health situation.

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Real-time Bluetooth 4.0 syncing

Bluetooth syncing removes the hassle of having to take the device off of the wrist and putting it back on again multiple times throughout the day. It also allows the device to send notifications to the phone. Bluetooth 4.0 is a great benefit to UP3 users because it doesn't use as much energy as previous versions, which will boost battery life.

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Advanced metrics tracking system

UP3 uses Bioimpedance sensors that track respiration, perspiration, hydration, skin temperature, heat flux, BMI, and can even sense which activity is being done. For instance, UP3 can identify sports like tennis and log the information automatically.

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Integrates with IFTTT (an automation app)

IFTTT (IF This Then That) is an automation app. By integrating it with UP3 you can get functionality like turning lights on in your room when you wake up, creating a chart of all your data and uploading to Google Drive, log a meal when you check in at a restaurant on Foursquare, etc. You can see a list of over a 1000 public recipes here.

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One year warranty

Jawbone will replace any broken device for up to one year.

Cons

Con

Unreliable altimeter

The socks sometimes have trouble detecting changes in elevation.

Con

Only one sock is active at a time

The socks feed data to a single anklet, and information for both feet can't be gathered at the same time yet. This functionality is planned.

Con

Doesn't catch some bad running techniques

Currently the fitness tracker covers a relatively small subset of bad running techniques. It's possible to be in a situation where the technique is bad and the device is not aware of it.

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Very few customization options currently available

Some of the fitness tracker's customization options are planned, but not yet available.

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Very limited heart rate utility - Can't take HR during exercise

The UP3 fitness tracker can only measure heart-rate when at rest (including while sleeping). This is because it uses a different technology than other smart bands - so unfortunately active heart rate can't be added in future software updates.

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There is no customer-service to help you if the UP3 has problems

The Jawbone UP3 fitness tracker frequently has quality issues and with Jawbone not having customer service, your only option is to return it to the place your purchased it from.In September 2016, Jawbone was forced to end their deal with the customer-service agency due to non-payment. You can read more here.

Con

The watch can easily get lost because of the weak clasp

The clasp is extremely unreliable and frequently pops open, especially during exercise.

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Inaccurate sleep tracking

It shows made up sleeping and heart rate data. Just leave the band off for a night and you'll see heart rate and sleep measurements in the app when you sync the next day.

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Poorly made and known to malfunction after a short period of use

Along with the major clasp issue, the UP3 has an all-around durability issue. The band has been known to break, the clasp fall off, and the tracker to stop transmitting data.

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No display

Instead, UP3 has LED indicators that will relay info to the user, but no display, so detailed info will have to be synced with ones app in order to see it.